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brindle

adjectiveC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,648 of 15,258leans written

Brindle means brown with streaks of another colour. A brindle coat, a brindle greyhound, brindle and white.

It is a coat pattern rather than a colour and appears in dogs, cattle and guinea pigs, where the streaks follow lines set as the embryo grew. Brindled is the older adjective and brindle a back-formation from it.

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Definitions of brindle

  1. 1adjectivebrindleBrown with streaks of another colour.C2

    “They adopted a brindle greyhound with dark, tiger-like stripes on its coat.”

brindle is a colour.

Where it comes from

A back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded, meaning streaked.

Built from

  • brinded · English — streaked, spotted

a back-formation from brindled, a variant of brinded (“streaked, spotted”), apparently reanalyzed as brindle + -ed. Attested from the late seventeenth century.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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brindle in the wild

  • White markings and ticking can occur on any brindle dog.

    Brindle

  • Common names include Garcinia cambogia (a former scientific name), as well as brindle berry, and Malabar tamarind.

    Garcinia gummi-gutta

  • Apamea crenata, known as the clouded-bordered brindle, is a moth in the family Noctuidae.

    Apamea crenata

  • The breed has a fine coat that comes in various colors, including light brown, merle, cream, black, brown & white, brindle, white, and brown.

    Banjara Hound

  • Apamea lateritia, the scarce brindle, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

    Apamea lateritia

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